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tives that can grow almost as long as this sheet of paper or just as wide at their base. Shipwrecked mariners are over-
Scientists like
joyed to find barnacles to eat. The most famous example is after a whale smashed up the whaleship Essex in 1820 in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Some of the starving
umes on barnacles. US Coast Guard biologists can deter-
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study you. Before C harles Darwin wro te
The Origin ofSpecies, he spent eight years writing four volmine how long a vessel has been at sea, based on the ac-
sailors survived in part by eating stalked barnacles growing
cumulation of barnacles on the hull, and marine ecologists
underneath their small boats. In Edgar Allan Poe's novel
study how ships deliver invasive barnacle species
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, shipwrecked sailors
around the world.
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survive by eating barnacles, and Thor H eyerdahl and his
Still want to be a barnacle? Before yo u decide, wait un-
crew enjoyed the barnacles beneath their raft Kon-Tiki on
til next issue where yo u'll read how men died for the sake of
their voyage across t)i.e Pacific. Japanese farmers have raised
the Sea C ucumber (no relation to the one in your salad).
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